Thursday 2 November 2017

LAN hiatus

The departure of Sarah, who moved away to Nottingham, regarding lack of actual business support and funding and other factors led to some issues keeping up with the LAN.
It seems to be impossible to keep up a practice as an artist, never mind as a group.
We are being set up to fail, but we don't have the same kind of protections as banks or politicians, with huge salaries, pensions, and back up even if faced with the worst case scenarios.
For us, it's funding cuts, being forced to do other jobs that we'd really rather not do, Universal Credit rollout, or being made to do work without any guarantee of pay, human rights, and exploitation.

In the time while I was applying for funding again via Grantium for my own practice (which is clearly madness!), the LAN website domain came up for renewal, and was subsequently bought by a children's clothing brand too lazy to do their own branding!!

So all of the content is still in the account, but we're not raking in any money from sales of children's clothing!

The reason for posting, is that I have been networking in other ways that I thought had nothing to do with the LAN, but may be useful.

And we have received notification about a report in to entrepreneurship - why it isn't being funded, so it's vital to respond and give feedback to why we SHOULD be supported!